Pittsburgh drug detectives say they arrested a
McDonald’s worker who was selling heroin in Happy Meals.
The District Attorney Narcotics Enforcement team
received information that the employee was selling the heroin at the McDonald’s
restaurant at 6361 Penn Avenue in the Bakery Square section of East Liberty.
Undercover agents, along with officers from
Swissvale, North Versailles, and McKees Rocks were able to set up a controlled
buy at the restaurant Wednesday afternoon.
Officers say customers looking for heroin were
instructed to go through the drive-thru and say, “I’d like to order a toy.”
The customer would then be told to proceed to the
first window where they would be handed a Happy Meal box containing heroin.
The customer would pay for the transaction at the
first window and leave without having to stop at the second window.
It is unknown at this point how long this process
had been going on or how many like transactions may have taken place prior to
today.
An employee from East Pittsburgh was arrested in the
bust.
Police say 10-stamp bags of heroin were recovered
inside of the Happy Meal box and another 50 bags were recovered from the
suspect.
Another McDonald’s employee was also arrested
earlier this month for selling heroin in Murrysville.
Detectives say they don’t think this heroin bust is
related to the potentially lethal batches of heroin being sold in Western
Pennsylvania.
At least 22-deaths have been blamed on that potent,
Fentanyl-laced heroin.
Fentanyl (also known as fentanil, brand names
Sublimaze, Actiq, Durogesic,
Duragesic, Fentora, Matrifen, Haldid, Onsolis, Instanyl, Abstral, Lazanda
and others) is a potent, synthetic opioid
analgesic with a rapid onset and short duration of action. It is a strong
agonist at the μ-opioid receptors.
Historically it has been
used to treat breakthrough pain and is commonly used in
pre-procedures as a pain reliever as well as an anesthetic
in combination with a benzodiazepine.
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